Ogun’s Return (Once Again… Statues Never Die), 2022 Inkjet print on Canson Platine Fibre Rag Framed: 60 1/4 x 79 7/8 x 2 1/4 inches / 153 x 203 x 5.6 cm Edition of 6 + 2 APs
One of the edition is in the Collection Pérez Art Museum Miami, museum purchase with funds provided by Jorge M. Pérez, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, and the PAMM Ambassadors for Black Art.
Sculpture at Maurice A. Ferré Park managed by by the Bayfront Park Management Trust.
“Mais soudain il te tient le poème Comme si ta volonté n’importait pas Il te tient il est plus fort que toi Il est sous ta peau Il se cache dans ton sang”
“perhaps, in all likelihood, he put gently into the earth some plants which, most likely, some of them, in all likelihood, continue to grow, continue to do what such plants do, like house and feed small and necessary creatures”
I received a Miami Individual Artists Grant. “With the support of the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners.”
After a competitive process involving a review panel and approval by the Miami-Dade County Cultural Affairs Council on March 20, 2024 and the Miami-Dade County Board of County Commissioners and Mayor, the County awards to the Artist one non-matching $3,000 Miami Individual Artists Grant (“Grant”). This Grant is awarded solely on the basis of the Grant Application (“Application”) submitted by the Artist, which is incorporated by reference into this Agreement, and in consideration for the Artist’s agreement to abide by the following terms and considerations set forth in this Agreement. This Grant is to be used by the Artist according to their needs, pursuant to the activities described by the Artist in the Application. Funding of the Grant is paid by the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, through its Miami Individual Artists (MIA) Grants Program, with the support of the Miami-Dade County Mayor, the Board of County Commissioners, and the Cultural Affairs Council. This Agreement shall be in effect during the grant period of October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2024.
they often become almost extreme in their non-spectacularity, in their function not to picture the event, but rather display the everyday structures behind them.
Bruno Serralongue according to Joanna Warsza, Textwork.
Even when I ran the club, I understood this. A lot of customers came to the club. If one out of ten enjoyed the place and decided to come again, that was enough. If one out of ten was a repeat customer, then the business would survive. To put it another way, it didn’t matter if nine out of ten people didn’t like the club. Realizing this lifted a weight off my shoulders. Still, I had to make sure that the one person who did like the place really liked it. In order to do that, I had to make my philosophy absolutely clear, and patiently maintain that philosophy no matter what. This is what I learned from running a business.
I remember my first encounter, in Germany, in 1992, with Koons’s famous “Puppy,” the forty-three-foot-high Scottie dog enveloped in living flowers. As I was judiciously taking descriptive and analytical notes, a bus arrived bearing a group of severely disabled children in wheelchairs. They went wild with delight. Abruptly feeling absurd, I shut my notebook and took instruction from the kids’ unequivocal verdict.
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If you manage not to enjoy the lustrous pooch, I don’t understand you. But if you’re afflicted by an attendant feeling of intellectual free fall, in a vacuum of identifiable emotion, we can talk. Koons is hugely significant—grandly engaging themes of childhood, wealth, sex, and (as with an aqualung cast in bronze) death—while finally signifying precious little. That’s my nightmare: an intimation that intelligence is obsolete in a world where things are either blazingly obvious or pitch dark.
I run into the main road a car scream and I aieeee back (MJ)
ANIMALS is an all-encompassing, interactive exhibition that looks at the animals around us and how human interaction plays a role in endangerment and survival. From domestic household pets to wild invasive or endangered species, animals are presented through various methods including painting, sculpture, mixed media, and video. The Art and Culture Center/Hollywood, May 18 through August 18, 2024.
In general, symbolic consistency is a function of tacit buy-in, collective identification, and repetitive social practices. We learn to speak and write, and we observe institutions coordinating and responding to language as though it is held in common. To say that the symbolic is in decline or disarray is thus to mark the loss of this effective common, to find that the authority backing the use of signifiers and grounding their felicitous signification across differences in context and groups has dissipated. Words drift freely and, as a result, fail to secure an order of stable interpretation; to the extent that interpretations held in common can provide defenses against traumatic antagonisms, the loss of functional meaning harbingers intensified encounters with the unassimilable.
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This wholly irrational dynamic points to the dimension of enjoyment and desire: symbolic systems have changed, and the medium of language has undergone transformation, leaving individuals jammed in their own sovereign mini-reality, identification and projection, imaginary unbound.
193 Gallery is delighted to be taking part for the first time in the ARCOmadrid fair, with a booth featuring works by April Bey, Jean-Marc Hunt and Adler Guerrier. In addition, the works of artist Adler Guerrier will be featured in the programme “The shore, the tide, the current: an oceanic Caribbean”, curated by Carla Acevedo-Yates and Sara Hermann Morera, with the architectural design of Ignacio Galán, Álvaro Fidalgo and Arantza Ozaeta. Discover our booth 7C28, from March 6th to 10th.
Outside wall of the booth of 193 Gallery at Arco, featuring Untitled (Field Guide–an ordering of imaginaries into new geographies perceived in the present) i-v and Untitled (whispered intelligence, calling away despair).
